Geriatric Medicine Clinical Case-Based Review 2026: A Handbook and Board Guide to Deprescribing, Polypharmacy Management, Decision-Making for the Aging Patient

A current, case-based geriatric medicine handbook that turns complex aging-related decisions into point-of-care protocols. Every chapter opens with a real clinical vignette and closes with clinical pearls, pitfalls, and management thresholds, built for residents, fellows, and primary care clinicians who need answers on rounds, not another 1,200-page textbook.What's inside: - 34 chapters spanning geriatric assessment, common syndromes, organ-system disease, and health systems & ethics- Deprescribing algorithms and age-adjusted renal/hepatic dosing charts- Validated frailty and cognitive assessment tools (Clinical Frailty Scale, Mini-Cog, MoCA, CAM, 4AT)- Goals-of-care conversation guides and advance directive documentation templates- Fifteen appendices delivering quick-reference tools for point-of-care use- Appendix O: board-style practice questions with full rationales spanning every part of the bookOrganized around the IHI Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility), this handbook reflects current 2026 evidence and guideline-concordant management for the internal medicine, family medicine, and primary care clinician managing the aging patient.Who this is for: internal medicine and family medicine residents, geriatric fellows, primary care physicians, NPs and PAs in long-term care, and hospitalists.